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118 GAWK: Effective AWK Programmingawk -f myprog -- -v -d file1 file2 ...This is not necessary in gawk. Unless ‘--posix’ has been specified, gawk silently putsany unrecognized options into ARGV for the awk program to deal with. As soon as it seesan unknown option, gawk stops looking for other options that it might otherwise recognize.The previous example with gawk would be:gawk -f myprog -d -v file1 file2 ...Because ‘-d’ is not a valid gawk option, it and the following ‘-v’ are passed on to the awkprogram.
Chapter 7: Arrays in awk 1197 Arrays in awkAn array is a table of values called elements. The elements of an array are distinguishedby their indices. Indices may be either numbers or strings.This chapter describes how arrays work in awk, how to use array elements, how to scanthrough every element in an array, and how to remove array elements. It also describeshow awk simulates multidimensional arrays, as well as some of the less obvious points aboutarray usage. The chapter finishes with a discussion of gawk’s facility for sorting an arraybased on its indices.awk maintains a single set of names that may be used for naming variables, arrays, andfunctions (see Section 8.2 [User-Defined Functions], page 153). Thus, you cannot have avariable and an array with the same name in the same awk program.7.1 Introduction to ArraysDoing linear scans over an associateive array is like tryinng to club someone todeath with a loaded Uzi.Larry WallThe awk language provides one-dimensional arrays for storing groups of related stringsor numbers. Every awk array must have a name. Array names have the same syntax asvariable names; any valid variable name would also be a valid array name. But one namecannot be used in both ways (as an array and as a variable) in the same awk program.Arrays in awk superficially resemble arrays in other programming languages, but thereare fundamental differences. In awk, it isn’t necessary to specify the size of an array beforestarting to use it. Additionally, any number or string in awk, not just consecutive integers,may be used as an array index.In most other languages, arrays must be declared before use, including a specification ofhow many elements or components they contain. In such languages, the declaration causesa contiguous block of memory to be allocated for that many elements. Usually, an index inthe array must be a positive integer. For example, the index zero specifies the first elementin the array, which is actually stored at the beginning of the block of memory. Index onespecifies the second element, which is stored in memory right after the first element, andso on. It is impossible to add more elements to the array, because it has room only for asmany elements as given in the declaration. (Some languages allow arbitrary starting andending indices—e.g., ‘15 .. 27’—but the size of the array is still fixed when the array isdeclared.)A contiguous array of four elements might look like the following example, conceptually,if the element values are 8, "foo", "", and 30:8 "foo" "" 30 Value0 1 2 3 IndexOnly the values are stored; the indices are implicit from the order of the values. Here, 8 isthe value at index zero, because 8 appears in the position with zero elements before it.Arrays in awk are different—they are associative. This means that each array is acollection of pairs: an index and its corresponding array element value:
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